Pronounced pass-kal. A high-level programming language
developed by Niklaus Wirth in the late 1960s. The language is named
after Blaise Pascal, a seventeenth-century French mathematician who
constructed one of the first mechanical adding machines.
Pascal is best known for its affinity to structured programming
techniques. The nature of the language forces programmers to design
programs methodically and carefully. For this reason, it is a popular
teaching language.

Despite its success in academia, Pascal has had only modest success in
the business world. Part of the resistance to Pascal by professional
programmers stems from its inflexibility and lack of tools for
developing large applications.

To address some of these criticisms, Wirth designed a new language
called Modula-2. Modula-2 is similar to Pascal in many respects, but it
contains additional features.

"The current release implements Standard Pascal (ISO 7185, levels 0 and
1), most of Extended Pascal (ISO 10206, aiming for full compliance), is
highly compatible to Borland Pascal (version 7.0), has some features for
compatibility to other compilers (such as VAX Pascal, Sun Pascal, Mac
Pascal, Borland Delphi and Pascal-SC). It provides a lot of useful GNU
extensions not found in other Pascal compilers, e.g. to ease the
interfacing with C and other languages in a portable way, and to work
with files, directories, dates and more, mostly independent of the
underlying operating system.

This version of GPC corresponds to GCC version 2.8.1, 2.95.x, 3.2.x,
3.3.x or 3.4.x."

Pascal is a procedural programming language, designed in 1968 and
published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth and named in honor of the French
mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal.
Pascal runs on a variety of platforms, such as Windows, Mac OS, and
various versions of UNIX/Linux. This tutorial will give you great
understanding on Pascal to proceed with Delphi and other related
frameworks etc.

This page is dedicated to teaching you to program with Borland Turbo
Pascal, easily and quickly. We assume no prior programming experience
but at least a basic knowledge of algebra. We provide you with all the
software you will need, so if you want to learn how to program then you
have come to the right place.

The Pascal programming language was created by Niklaus Wirth in 1970. It
was
named after Blaise Pascal, a famous French Mathematician. It was made as
a
language to teach programming and to be reliable and efficient. Pascal
has since
become more than just an academic language and is now used commercially.